Mike is a family man He loves his little kids and tries to spend as much time with them as his job allows. Mike is part of an IT operations team at a large financial IT service provider. One of his responsibilities is being on-call. He shares with 3 other team members so, effectively he has
Telecommuting, doing remote work from home, even on a part time basis, is increasing in the US. The biggest increases in this over the last few years is in the college educated, white collar workers. And around 37% of workers say they have telecommuted during their career. So, when doing remote work in the IT
With SCOM alerts, it’s sometimes helpful to be able to view SCOM Knowledge Base (KB) articles in order to help resolve the issue detected by SCOM. But finding those articles quickly can sometimes be a pain. In order to help with this, here’s a script that will allow you to receive the KB articles for
Situation With its Street One and CECIL brands, the CBR Fashion Group is one of Germany’s Top Five womenswear companies. CBR Fashion is one of the fastest fashion companies with only 90 days from trend discovery to delivery at 8,900 points-of-sale in 19 countries. CBR heavily depends on fully automated processes. Uptime of their mission-critical IT
The pressure on IT budgets, lack of skilled workforce and the need to deliver IT on time and to guarantee its availability requires an increasing level of automation of processes and practices. Hence, the pace of IT automation is accelerating and promises to reduce risk, costs and to improve operational excellence. Generally, IT automation requires
IT Alerting has become a premier field of application for operational alerting. There is a growing number of vendors claiming to do IT alerting. But look closer, there are couple of requirements that should sit on top of the list when choosing the right vendor: Multi-modality of notifications is crucial: Voice call with text-to-speech, text,